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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 1d

Oct 8: Feast of Iwig (Ywi) (C7th), Northumbrian monk and deacon. Disciple of Cuthbert at Lindisfarne and later hermit in Brittany, where he accomplished miracles of healing. 📸xlibber #medievalsky

Lindisfarne Castle sitting atop Beblowe Crag.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 1d

Oct 8: Feast of Cú-Chuimne (†747), monk and scholar of Iona. Together with Ruben of Dairinis, Ireland, he compiled the Collectio canonum Hibernensis, the first systematic western collection of canon law. 📸August Schwerdfeger #medievalsky

Iona Abbey between hills in the background and the sea in the foreground.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 1d

Oct 8: Feast of Triduana, virgin linked with Rescobie, Angus. According to the Aberdeen Breviary, she escaped the unwanted advances of a Pictish king by plucking out her eyes. St Triduana’s Chapel, Edinburgh 📸Historic Environment Scotland #medievalsky

The approach to St Triduana’s Chapel, Edinburgh.

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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 1d

New Medieval Books: Monasticism in Ireland www.medievalists.net/2024/10/new-... #monasticism

New Medieval Books: Monasticism in Ireland - Medievalists.net

This book explores the functioning of monasteries in Ireland during the High Middle Ages and their integral role in the country's religious life. It addresses the key question: 'How monastic was the…

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 2d

Delighted to be giving a Bede's World / Durham World Heritage Site lecture in @durham.ac.uk on 18 October.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 3d

The two openings which pilgrims would have used to access and exit the Anglo-Saxon crypt at Ripon Cathedral in North Yorkshire. Dating to 672 AD, the crypt is the only surviving part of St. Wilfrid’s original church. 📸 My own. #SaxonSunday #RiponCathedral

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 3d

The first recorded British sea battle took place #OTD in 719. Donnchad Becc, king of Cenn Tíre (Kintyre), brought to a halt the ascendancy of the Lorn king of Dál Riata, Selbach mac Ferchair. The standard Dál Riatan naval ship was the ‘seven-bencher’. 📸Gary Sutherland #medievalsky

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 6d

A late 9th century sword pommel - part of the Bedale Hoard which was found by metal detectorists in 2012. The hoard is now part of the collections at the Yorkshire Museum in York. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #BedaleHoard #YorkshireMuseum

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 6d

Northumbrian rebels led by thegns Gamelbearn, Dunstan and Glúniairn stormed the absent Earl Tostig’s York home #OTD in 1065, slew his retainers and raided his treasury. It was partly in revenge for the execution of thegns Gospatric, Gamel and Ulf. 📸York Archaeological Trust #medievalsky

Thatched wooden houses huddled together in an artist's impression of 10th-century York.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 6d

When the lads are arguing over whose fault it was the stag eluded the hunt and you have an actual arrow sprouting from your chest.

A 14th-century French representation of the death of William II 'Rufus, king of the English, during a hunt.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 7d

Tilberht was consecrated bishop of Hagustaldes ham (Hexham) at a place called Wulfeswelle, ‘well of the wolf’, #OTD in 780/81. 📸Kevin Wilbraham #medievalsky

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 7d

After four years of work by game designers, writers, archaeologists, and a diverse group of artists, pre-orders are now open for Carved in Stone: A Storyteller’s Guide to the Picts carved-in-stone.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

Pre-order Carved in Stone on BackerKit

A system-agnostic setting guide to Scotland’s Pictish peoples, for players, historians and enthusiasts of all ages!

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 8d

Eadwig, king of the English, died #OTD in 959. He lost the allegiance of Northumbria and Mercia to his brother Edgar in 957. A seemingly peaceful split in the nascent kingdom of England ensued, later to be mended when the teenage Edgar became rex Anglorum. 📸York Museums Trust #medievalsky

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 8d

Scottish journalist George Buist, who brought the Norrie’s Law Hoard to public attention, died #OTD in 1860. Found near Largo, Fife, in 1819, much of the Pictish silver was illegally sold and the rest kept secret for 20 years until Buist investigated. 📸National Museums Scotland #medievalsky

The Norrie’s Law Hoard spread out for display.

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Dig It! @digitscotland.bsky.social · 9d

"Whoever carved the Ardross wolf has seen the real thing" 🐺

Now on display in Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, the famous Ardross Wolf Stone was probably created over 1,000 years before these animals were persecuted to extinction in Britain around 1760: www.digitscotland.com/the-archaeol...

Stylised carving of a wolf on a piece of stone

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 9d

Cobwebs glistening with dew this morning.

A gorse bush hung with cobwebs glistening with dew.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 10d

Æthelred I, king of the Northumbrians, married Ælfflæd, daughter of Offa of Mercia, #OTD in 792, reportedly after putting away his first wife. In 796 he was slain at Corebricg (Corbridge) by a group of conspirators including ealdormen Ealdred and Wada. 📸North Lincolnshire Museum #medievalsky

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 11d

The Migvie Stone - a Class II Pictish Stone located in St. Final’s Kirkyard, two miles north of Logie Coldstone, in Aberdeenshire. Class II stones date from the 8th and 9th centuries. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Picts #Aberdeenshire

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 11d

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records a great sea-flood #OTD in 1014, the tide ‘reaching inland further than ever before, submerging many homesteads and drowning many people’. It may have been a tsunami caused by an asteroid strike. 📸Dave Fergusson #medievalsky

A river in spate as it passes through woodland.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 11d

Watching The Traitors Ireland and it has an ogham stones challenge. Yuss!

The Traitors Ireland host Siobhán McSweeney standing between ogham stones in a wood.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 11d

This C9th enamelled copper crosier-head, found at Helgö, Sweden, in 1954, is thought to have been looted from the shrine of St Columba on Iona.📸Swedish History Museum #medievalsky

The crosier-head's curving terminal appears to depict the biblical tale of Jonah trapped in the mouth of a whale or sea-monster.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 12d

A long shot, but do any of you lovely medievalists know roughly when the Normans first coined the name Duresme for Durham?

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 13d

Wulfstan II, archbishop of York, called on his entire Viking-blighted nation to fast for three days on bread, herbs and water starting #OTD in 1009. The aim: ‘that we may obtain God’s mercy and His compassion and that we may through His help withstand our enemies’. #medievalsky

Artist's impression of Viking longships, with round shields arrayed along the gunwales, sailing along a river.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 13d

This is a wonderful turn of phrase from William of Malmesbury talking about Philip I: 'The king of France, though lazy and surfeited with daily gluttony, came belching and hiccupping to the war.' 😆 #medievalsky

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UHI Archaeology Institute @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social · 13d

The #archaeology of Uist is the subject of a new book by the UHI Archaeology Institute’s Dr Rebecca Rennel and Dr Emily Gal.

New interactive book puts the spotlight on the archaeology of Uist

The archaeology of Uist is the subject of a new book by the UHI Archaeology Institute’s Dr Rebecca Rennel and Dr Emily Gal.

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